Optimizing Strategic Safety Stock Placement in Two-Layer Supply Chains

In this paper, we minimize the holding cost of the safety stock in the supply chain subject to linear constraints on the service times between the nodes of the network. In the problem, the objective function is concave as we assume the demand to be bounded by a concave function. The optimal solution...

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Main Author: Lesnaia, Ekaterina
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Language:en_US
Published: 2003
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/3751
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description In this paper, we minimize the holding cost of the safety stock in the supply chain subject to linear constraints on the service times between the nodes of the network. In the problem, the objective function is concave as we assume the demand to be bounded by a concave function. The optimal solutions of the problem belong to the set of extreme points of the polyhedron, specified by the constraints of the problem. We first characterize the extreme points for the two-layer networks and then provide bounds to use in a branch and bound algorithm.
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spelling mit-1721.1/37512019-04-10T12:16:32Z Optimizing Strategic Safety Stock Placement in Two-Layer Supply Chains Lesnaia, Ekaterina base-stock policy dynamic programming application multi-stage supply-chain application safety stock optimization branch and bound algorithm In this paper, we minimize the holding cost of the safety stock in the supply chain subject to linear constraints on the service times between the nodes of the network. In the problem, the objective function is concave as we assume the demand to be bounded by a concave function. The optimal solutions of the problem belong to the set of extreme points of the polyhedron, specified by the constraints of the problem. We first characterize the extreme points for the two-layer networks and then provide bounds to use in a branch and bound algorithm. Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA) 2003-11-29T20:42:44Z 2003-11-29T20:42:44Z 2003-01 Article http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/3751 en_US Innovation in Manufacturing Systems and Technology (IMST); 104685 bytes application/pdf application/pdf
spellingShingle base-stock policy
dynamic programming application
multi-stage supply-chain application
safety stock optimization
branch and bound algorithm
Lesnaia, Ekaterina
Optimizing Strategic Safety Stock Placement in Two-Layer Supply Chains
title Optimizing Strategic Safety Stock Placement in Two-Layer Supply Chains
title_full Optimizing Strategic Safety Stock Placement in Two-Layer Supply Chains
title_fullStr Optimizing Strategic Safety Stock Placement in Two-Layer Supply Chains
title_full_unstemmed Optimizing Strategic Safety Stock Placement in Two-Layer Supply Chains
title_short Optimizing Strategic Safety Stock Placement in Two-Layer Supply Chains
title_sort optimizing strategic safety stock placement in two layer supply chains
topic base-stock policy
dynamic programming application
multi-stage supply-chain application
safety stock optimization
branch and bound algorithm
url http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/3751
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